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#320411 11-Aug-2025 14:30
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I have lost patience with chrome and ublock not playing together anymore.

 

What browser is recommended nowadays?

 

Must have ad blocking and bitwarden extension support.

 

Has Edge got the edge?

 

If Firefox still foxy?

 

Is there anything new out there shining a light I haven't seen?

 

 




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  #3401686 11-Aug-2025 14:32
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Vivaldi fan here. Good ad-blocking, Bitwarden support.




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  #3401689 11-Aug-2025 14:35
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Another vote for Vivaldi. Cross-platform sync if you want to, Chrome extension support, nice mouse gestures, loads of options relating to privacy, tabs, layout, theming etc. to make it work just how you like.

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  #3401692 11-Aug-2025 14:39
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Use Brave browser which has "Brave Shields" and I was using Bitwarden which worked fine, but have now moved to NordPass.



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  #3401696 11-Aug-2025 15:08
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I still use Firefox, mainly for ideological reasons: the last thing we need is another browser monoculture. I remember the IE6 days.

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  #3401795 11-Aug-2025 15:55
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No love for the compatible ublock origin lite?

 

Seems to keep doing it's thing 

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  #3401798 11-Aug-2025 16:04
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Brave works well for me. I also have other browsers for other things but mainy just use Brave.

 

p.s.: I note no-one mentions Edge. It was forced on me with a truckload of other crap when I installed Windows, but as far as I could see, it just seemed to be an advertising vehicle. I disabled it as soon as I got Brave installed and set up.

 

 




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  #3401815 11-Aug-2025 16:57
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Firefox.




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  #3401819 11-Aug-2025 17:23
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Brave, on desktop and Android. However, I'm finding the Android experience disappointing lately. I need to regularly kill the app to get it to displaying the the correct groups icons, or even correctly show a full window instead of the group I was last using. I've also had it loose all of my open tabs for about a week, before it randomly opened them all again. 

 

 

 

I'll likely switch back to Firefox again.

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  #3401822 11-Aug-2025 17:39
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I am also a Brave fan - Used Vivaldi for a bit, is great but very feature filled (Email Client, Calendar etc) so go with that if that's your thing.

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  #3401824 11-Aug-2025 17:49
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I'm happy with Brave. I moved on from Firefox a few months ago and haven't looked back.

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  #3401825 11-Aug-2025 17:50
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Oblivian:

 

No love for the compatible ublock origin lite?

 

Seems to keep doing it's thing 

 

 

 

 

It's ok, I really miss the element blocking features personally. 

 
 
 
 

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  #3401831 11-Aug-2025 18:23
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Firefox

 







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  #3401853 11-Aug-2025 19:41
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I use Vivaldi, but I'm contemplating moving to firefox because they've decided to not continue supporting Manifest v2 longer term and rely on their own built in adblocker which I don't trust as much as UBO




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  #3401879 11-Aug-2025 19:59
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Do any of the Chrome based browsers keep up with Chrome releases? (I'm aware Edge keeps pace now)

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  #3401881 11-Aug-2025 20:11
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Add the following commands to your Chrome shortcut to keep using uBlock Origin: --allow-legacy-mv2-extensions --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled

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